I had a fun week, teaching mindfulness at Tawa College to teenagers and at the community centre to a younger age group.

I explained to the teens about how thoughts, feelings and actions relate to each other in every day situations. When I asked them if that was already known information, I was so surprised that this basic understanding of our wellbeing, was missing!

So one more time:

Our daily life is a string of situations up on situations. In every situation there will be thoughts popping up in our minds, we feel things in our body, have emotions and we will do something. Or we will avoid doing something.

This determines whether we are on an upwards way, in our spiral of well-being, or on a downward way.

By becoming more mindful of ourselves, and how we react in daily situations, we will get more insight in why we feel the way we feel. And that gives us the opportunity to make changes to what we think, what we feel and what we do so we make sure we get on the way up in this spiral.

This week take some time, to have a good look at where you are on this spiral. At the bottom, half way up, or are you generally feeling all good, standing at the top of your spiral??

Can you think of changes you can make, to keep going upwards? Or to stop from going downwards?

Have a great week, remember to register for the 8 week mindfulness that starts next term, (the above is part of this course). This is a great course for teenagers too! And not just for women 🙂

Monique

💜Healthy Mind, Happy Heart

ps, quiet for the storm. Tawa College session about mindfulness last Monday.